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Substance P accelerates hypercellularity and angiogenesis in tendon tissue and enhances paratendinitis in response to Achilles tendon overuse in a tendinopathy model

4 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Sports Medicine Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Correspondence to Dr Patrik Danielson, Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Anatomy ...
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Overtraining--what do lactate curves tell us?

Department of Human Biology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. In a cyclist, competing at national and international level, submaximal lactate concentrations were initially interpreted as ...
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Can oestrogen influence skeletal muscle damage, inflammation, and repair?

Oestrogen may affect muscle damage and inflammation, but the physiological significance of this, particularly potential effects on muscle repair and recovery in humans, and the mechanisms of its ...
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Muscle injuries and PRP: what does the science say?

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Functional assessment of knee joint position sense following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Rehabilitation Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (TUMS), Pich-Shemiran, Tehran, Iran Associate Professor M R Hadian, Rehabilitation Faculty, Tehran University of ...
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Activity and functional readiness, not age, are the critical factors for second anterior cruciate ligament injury — the Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study

6 Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslow, Norway Correspondence to Dr Hege Grindem, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0806, ...
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Effect of submaximal contraction intensity in contract-relax proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching

Objective: To determine if submaximal contractions used in contract-relax proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (CRPNF) stretching of the hamstrings yield comparable gains in hamstring flexibility ...
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Great Britain Rowing Team Guideline for Diagnosis and Management of Rib Stress Injury: Part 2 – The Guideline itself

Correspondence to Dr Guy Evans, Great Britain Rowing Medical Team – British Rowing, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; guy.evans{at}gbrowingteam.org.uk If you wish to reuse ...
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2016 consensus statement of the International Ankle Consortium: prevalence, impact and long-term consequences of lateral ankle sprains

The Executive Committee of the International Ankle Consortium presents this 2016 position paper with recommendations for information implementation and continued research based on the paradigm that ...
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Progressing rehabilitation after injury: consider the ‘control-chaos continuum’

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Intrinsic risk factors of non-contact quadriceps and hamstring strains in soccer: a prospective study of 100 professional players

1 Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Quantitative Analysis & Kinesiology Research, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Physiotherapy, Biomechanics and Sports ...
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Do female elite athletes experience more complicated childbirth than non-athletes? A case–control study

Correspondence to Thorgerdur Sigurdardottir, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík 101, Iceland; th.sigurdardottir{at}gmail.com Objective Previous studies ...